Process is at the core of Jack Tanner’s practice. He creates highly structured artworks, where viewer experience and pattern combine with an expansive approach to depth, colour and surface repetition. His works reflect an expert understanding of geometries present within nature: a certain purity of form inherent in the world's mathematical formulae. Using everyday hardware such as wood and screws, Tanner’s geometric installations display an elegant and fascinating interplay of optical illusions. His three-dimensional paintings appear to shift before the eye, changing in their appearance depending on the angle by which they are viewed.

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Trained from a young age by his father as a cabinet maker, Tanner's practical abilities are refined beyond his years, and it was in 2012 when his grandfather gifted him a bag of repurposed screws that he realised its potential as a primary medium. Each artwork begins with a concept in mind, followed by a highly generative practice which builds off his own methodology, his latest works with spray paint and shaped canvas marking an incredible departure into broader depths of field. Tanner's artworks always display both a profound understanding of mathematical systems, such as his screw series, which are an outstanding, tenacious and colourful display of pattern.

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Tanner graduated in 2012 with a first from Wimbledon School of Art. His artworks have received exceptional responses from collectors around the world, and he continues to present at a number of group exhibitions and art fairs after a notably outstanding debut at Woolff Gallery in 2018.